These iconoclasts shunned the modern world and ventured into the most remote reaches of planet Earth to live in total isolation — sometimes for decades on end.

Researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were livestreaming an unmanned expedition along the ocean floor when they spied the strange golden object on some rocks.

The section of wall was a well-preserved section of the 32nd Ming Great Wall, of which nearly 30 percent has already been lost to time.

After Elizabeth Shoaf was abducted by 36-year-old Vinson Filyaw, she did everything she could to escape — and eventually succeeded when she stole his phone to send a text to her mom.

On September 1, 1923, Japan was struck by the Great Kantō Earthquake, which triggered a series of disasters including firestorms, tsunamis, and landslides that left more than 100,000 dead and 40,000 missing.

The otter stole at least 50 of the hotel's koi fish, which cost around $2,500 each.

Ceremonies honoring Xipe Totec were often brutal, involving human sacrifices and skinning of corpses, but the deity was also revered as a god of spring and rebirth, with the human skin seen as merely the husk that harbored the seed of life within.

Archaeologists discovered the figures in a hidden cache buried at the Templo Mayor in Mexico City, the main temple of what was once the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.

Go inside seven chilling cases of phrogging, from Pamela Anderson's stalker to the murderous Denver Spider Man.

Corey Haim struggled with drug addiction throughout most of his life, but an autopsy revealed that pneumonia was the true cause of his death.

Experts believe the woman became an "accidental host" to the parasite when she was foraging for greens near a lake by her home.